Five Simple Ways to Interrupt Your Doom-Scrolling Habit Pattern

It starts as “just a quick scroll.”
You’re checking the news, social media, the weather—whatever you tell yourself justifies the moment. But 20 minutes later you feel… off.

Heavy. Foggy. Disconnected. Irritated. Numb.

This is the cost of doomscrolling—a term originally coined for compulsively consuming negative news, but now more broadly used to describe any mindless scrolling that drains your mental, emotional and energetic bandwidth.

We see this not as a character flaw, but as an invitation—to notice what’s happening in your system, and to gently come back to your centre.

Here we will share 5 simple practices to help you interrupt the doomscroll habit, and bring you back to the present.